Hi Martin,
This is really weird... I have no idea how they could turn 285
pages into 404... unless they make the print really huge and spread it out
more. They better NOT have added "stuff" to it without my permission-- I
warned them specifically not to. They wanted to get the opinions of other
scientists and include them as counterpoint. No way!
I'm frustrated with the behavior of Columbia University Press
and have been for quite a while, now. In fact, I even requested that they
drop my father from their publication list, but they refused to do that.
They have done things without informing me, they have told me things which
later turned out to not be true, etc.... They are unimaginably slow to get
these works out in the marketplace, and have multiple,
unexplained delays.
In short... they suck. Sorry it's impacting you.
However, "Life, Itself" is relatively easy to find in libraries
because it's still in print and that's also the reason it doesn't go
missing the way "Anticipatory Systems" does.
I will attempt to get an update from the publisher and if they
have any useful information, I'll post it here.
Cheers,
Judith
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:49
AM
Subject: [ROSEN] Paperback edition of
Life, Itself
Hi, I'm new to the list.
I've just started reading about Robert Rosen
and his work.
I
was surprised to see that Amazon has a paperback edition of "Life,
Itself" listed as being available Feb 28, 2005. I had ordered a copy
from Barnes and Noble a few days earlier, but got a message this
morning
saying that it has been delayed.
Here's Columbia
University Press's entry about it:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023107/0231075642.HTM
Also,
the paperback has 404 pages, versus the hardback's 285. Is there
any
additional content?
Thanks,
Martin
--
Martin K
Jones
University of Alabama at
Birmingham